CEOs in Technology

Cloud Computing Journal caught up with the CEO of a major new player in the fast-emerging Cloud ecosystem - a CEO who has taken an interesting and unusual decision. While signing up as the Platinum Plus Sponsor of the 5th International Cloud Expo, he and his company have decided to remain completely anonymous - well for two more weeks anyway! All will be revealed only just before the sell-out event. As of today, that revelation will take place in 9 days' time. Who or what might this company might be, only seasoned industry analysts can even guess at, let alone know. But perhaps there are some inadvertent clues among the answers given here to the latest in our "Exclusive Q&A" series. Enjoy! Register Today and Save $550 ! Explore Sponsorship Opportunities ! The Stealth Cloud Computing company will be launched on April 19, 2010 at Cloud Expo, Jacob Javits Convention Cent... (more)

Novell Rejects Elliott’s $2 Billion Bid

Novell broke its 18-day silence late Saturday morning and rejected the unsolicited $5.75-a-share offer to take the company private that Elliott Associates plunked on the table March 2. Novell wants more money. Bearing in mind that Novell currently has close to a billion dollars in the bank that Elliott would theoretically get, Novell calls the offer “inadequate” and claims it “undervalues the company’s franchise and growth prospects.” Those “growth prospects,” however, are dubious and considering that Novell’s stock hasn’t been valued at $5.75 since the summer of 2008 – well, ... (more)

EMC Hires Its First Chief Marketing Officer

EMC Session at Cloud Expo To capitalize on what it figures is its vanguard position in the great cloud explosion EMC has recruited one-time Veritas exec Jeremy Burton as its chief marketing officer, and made him responsible for the global structure, strategy and execution of all its marketing efforts. The company has never had a CMO before. Burton will report to CEO Joe Tucci. Register Today and Save $550 ! Explore Sponsorship Opportunities ! The Englishman honed his marketing skills at Oracle, went to Veritas to head the Data Management Group and serve as CMO when Gary Bloom, anot... (more)

Introducing the Concept of the "Resource Cloud" at Cloud Expo 2010 in New York

Stealth Cloud Computing Startup To Launch at Cloud Expo Samuel Taylor Coleridge, whom most people know as an English poet, also wrote some very nice prose about words. For example he was the one who summed up poetry itself as being about, above all, choosing "the best possible words in the best possible order." Another fellow who knew a thing or two about words was a predecessor of mine - by a few hundred years! - at Trinity College, Cambridge. His name was Archbishop Richard Chevenix Trench and he produced, among another things, a little volume called On The Study of Words. This w... (more)

Cloud Expo New York Call for Papers Now Open

Early Bird Savings Cloud Expo Cloud computing is a game changer. The cloud is disrupting traditional software and hardware business models by disrupting how IT service gets delivered. Entrepreneurial opportunities abound as this classic disruptive technology begins to proliferate, so it is no surprise that SYS-CON's industry-leading International Cloud Expo is going from strength to strength. The 5th International Cloud Expo, to be held April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York, NY, announces that its Call for Papers is fast approaching. Topics on which... (more)